the reason why... this would appear to be a dead zone to all things cool in palaeontology
it began with my wandering into the earth science department. what i found here kinda makes sense as this is the hub of palaeontology studies in calgary...
yet if this were drumheller or edmonton things would have been mighty different...
at first just the usual harmless extinction suspects as you'd expect. a wall full of ammonites. though from my same time era these little squidy guys pose little threat to dinosaurs. whether in the form of trying to eat us, or in the more modern sense put us out of work. these guys have the popularity of well an octopus... if octopuses wore shells that is.
however i was soon going to discover that this was the most impressive fossil display they had in many ways...
later down the hallway was a plesiosaur. these guys though not dinosaurs are often mistaken for them... not sure why... he's got flippers... and since when did swimming ever enter the dinosaur skill list...
anyways this gal was here as the senior mesozoic representative at the university. she was surprised to see me as apparently they hadn't seen a new prehistoric individual down in the heart of the university since the tyrrell opened...
seems that once the tyrrell opened up north in drumheller all the dinosaurs and other extinct critters started to migrate up there as there was a better chance for jobs and even fame up there. the university cut its funding to palaeontology and fossils, and as of such only a few senior prehistoric critters were kept on.
besides this one marine reptile the only other mesozoic representative was a bit of a shocking disappointment...
a dinosaur... but one even i won't have to fear being out performed by... it was a poor inarticulate struthiomimus. this old fellow had been at the university for over 30 years, and he was in a bad zone...
he remembered when he was first given the position of key dinosaur display that he was promised that the collection would only grow from here, and that he'd soon have other dinosaur co-workers. however all too soon the tyrrell would end that dream. one by one all the other dinosaurs left the university... then the pay cuts came in. this poor guy barely makes enough to survive day by day that alone do anything fun...
the situation was so bad for the once proud ostrich mimic he was sneaking into devil dinosaurs classes to try and find a solution to his problems...
okay so i know i've said this many times on my blog people of the web wide world, but this just PROVES i need to get out of here!!! when the only display a university is willing to put up is an ammonite wall you know we dinosaurs have it off bad!!!
well i'm going to sleep, and tomorrow mike should show up, and i can leave this nightmare behind... wait is it a good idea to goto sleep then if i'm in a nightmare???
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